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The inference market moves fast: provider funding rounds, price wars measured per million tokens, capacity build-outs and consolidation. DeAI reports the transactions and market moves that change builder economics — never the token-price narrative.
DeepInfra Pricing in 2026: Every Model Priced, Verified
DeepInfra prices 100+ open models per token as of 2026-10-13: DeepSeek V4 Flash $0.06/$0.18 per million, Kimi K3 $2.85/$14.25, Claude and Gemini also listed.
Price Index Delta: DeepSeek V4 Pro Snaps Back, GLM-5.3 Flash Scissors
OpenRouter list-price delta, 2026-10-12: DeepSeek V4 Pro snapped back 358% to $0.9553/$1.9105; GLM-5.3 Flash cut input 85% while output rose 140%.
Nvidia weighs deeper bets on Reflection AI as deal options widen
Reuters and Bloomberg corroborate the FT report that Nvidia may deepen its Reflection AI investment or acquire it; Beam's open weights are due this month.
This Week in DeAI: The Open-Weights Supply Wave Gets a Date
Mistral, Reflection, and Aleph Alpha all promised weights this October; Ecosia already switched, and the deprecation wave shows why owning the file matters.
SambaNova Cloud in 2026: RDU Inference Priced Across Its Whole Catalog
SambaNova Cloud runs open models on RDU silicon. We priced all 7 models as of 2026-10-06: $0.22/$0.59 on gpt-oss-120b up to $3/$4.50 on DeepSeek V3.1.
Reflection AI launches Beam: 501B open-weight MoE
Reflection AI launched Beam, a 501B sparse MoE with 23B active, claiming GLM-5.2 reasoning at 3-4x less compute. Benchmarks are claims; weights due this month.
Price Index Delta: DeepSeek Doubles, Kimi K3 Splits, gpt-oss Reverts
OpenRouter list-price delta, 2026-10-05: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash doubled to $0.30/$1.20 per million tokens; Kimi K3 split its spread; gpt-oss-120b reverted.
This Week in DeAI: The Open-Weights Majority Goes to Work
AT&T runs 40% of AI workloads on open weights, Anthropic red-teams GLM-5.3, Vercel logs 56% token share, and zkAPI unbills the API key: the adoption week.
Cerebras vs Groq in 2026: Speed, Price, Models Compared
Cerebras vs Groq in 2026: third-party medians measure Cerebras at ~1,783 tokens/s on gpt-oss-120b vs Groq's ~476, while Groq list prices are roughly half.
How fast is AI inference getting cheaper? The 13x-per-year answer
Fixed-capability AI inference cost falls about 47% per quarter, roughly 13x per year, per Epoch AI. Here is why your per-task bill can still rise anyway.
AT&T runs 40% of AI workloads on open models, targeting 70%
The FT reports AT&T runs 40% of its AI workloads on open-weight models, targeting 70%, as Tinder's AI spend grew from $1M to $10M a year in six months.
The 8 Best Groq Alternatives in 2026 (Priced & Benchmarked)
Groq's LPU is fast but its model list is narrow. 8 alternatives at 2026-09-22 prices: Cerebras, SambaNova, DeepInfra, Novita, Fireworks, Nebius, Chutes.
Price Index Delta: Kimi K3 Cuts 36%, DeepSeek Reverts to Off-Peak
Week-over-week OpenRouter list-price delta, 2026-09-21: Kimi K3 down 36% to $1.70/$8.50 per million tokens; DeepSeek V4.1 Flash halved to $0.15/$0.60 off-peak.
Qwen-Image-2.1 lands open — under a research-only licence
Alibaba's Qwen released Qwen-Image-2.1, a 7B image model, to a 1M-view X rollout — but the licence is research-only, a walk-back from Apache 2.0.
StepFun's Step 5 Preview API ships; open weights promised October 15
StepFun launched Step 5 Preview: a 600B MoE, 27B active, 1M context, at $2.70 per million output tokens. Open weights are promised October 15, no license named.
Vercel gateway data shows open models at a record 78.4% of tokens
X is celebrating Vercel's claim that open-weight models hit 78.4% of AI Gateway token volume, with open-lab spend passing OpenAI. It is one gateway's sample.
The 8 Best Fireworks AI Alternatives in 2026 (Priced)
Fireworks AI not the right fit? Here are 8 open-weight inference alternatives — serverless, fast-silicon, and confidential — with 2026-09-15 prices.
Latham & Watkins builds its own AI stack on open-weight Nemotron 3
Latham & Watkins bought Nvidia GPU servers and is fine-tuning open-weight Nemotron 3 on its own legal data. X calls it the enterprise sovereign-AI template.
Price Index Delta: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Lands, GLM Flash Doubles
Week-over-week OpenRouter list-price delta, 2026-09-14 vs 2026-09-07: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 fell 57% to $0.06/$0.12 per million tokens; GLM-5.3 Flash doubled.
Anthropic Fable 5.1 ships with zero-retention path for enterprises
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.1 today with Enterprise Frontier Safeguards promising ZDR-equivalent privacy, and cache reads cut 75% to $0.25/M.
Amodei tells AI labs to slow down, Anthropic opens doors to auditors
Dario Amodei published a three-step plan to pace frontier AI and committed Anthropic to embedded third-party evaluators; Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed it.
DeepSeek retires V4-Flash in a silent swap, spares V4-Pro
DeepSeek retired legacy V4-Flash IDs into V4.1-Flash ($0.30/$1.20 per M) and reversed its V4-Pro shutdown — two changes buried in pricing-page footnotes.
DeepSeek V4.1-Flash: builders argue over the 890-byte KV cache
DeepSeek's MIT-licensed V4.1-Flash drew 1.37M X views in five hours. Verified: 552B MoE weights on Hugging Face, 1M context, $0.003/M cached input.
The 8 Best Together AI Alternatives in 2026 (Priced)
Together AI not the right fit? Here are 8 open-weight inference alternatives — serverless, fast-silicon, and decentralized — with 2026-09-08 prices.
Open-Model Inference Prices, September 2026
On 2026-09-07 OpenRouter listed gpt-oss-120b at $0.037/$0.17 per million tokens and DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 at $0.14/$0.28, matching DeepSeek's official API.
The Cheapest LLM APIs in 2026 — 14 Providers Priced per Million Tokens
The cheapest LLM APIs in 2026 start at $0.14 per million input tokens (DeepSeek V4 Flash, as of 2026-08-20). Compare 14 providers and pricing models.
Together AI vs Fireworks AI (2026): Speed, Price, and Privacy Compared
Together AI and Fireworks AI both serve open-weight models via OpenAI-compatible APIs. Here's how they compare on speed, price, and privacy across 4 axes.
